Bingo News for 22nd May 2008

Interval bingo is cash line and prize line bingo games played on the "shutterboards" between the main sessions of bingo.

Reported in Reuters Thursday May 22nd 2008

Threat to Flutters Bingo Club's "Blackpool Lights"

A bingo hall in Biggleswade has come under fire from the local Town Council for illuminating the front of the Flutters Bingo Club like "something you would see on the sea front at Blackpool"

Cllr Peter Vickers said of the lights that they were not in character with the part of town the bingo hall is situated in and insisted that the District council should act to have the lights removed immediately.

Additionally the club has ignored the fact that it is in a conservation area and hadn't applied for planning prior to erecting the lights.

In response it is reported that the director of Flutters Bingo Clubs, Ian Tyler said that he was hoping to reach an agreement over the lights but accepted that planning permission had not been applied for before installing the lights.

Reported in The Comet Thursday 22nd May 2008

Taunton Gran wins £29,000

A 70 year old grandmother was overjoyed to win over £29,000 at her local Mecca Bingo Club in Corporation Street, Taunton after playing bingo for many years. She scooped this huge amount of money on the Afternoon Delight game pocketing the house prize of £43, Regional prize of £2,198 and the National Game prize of £26,950 in just 40 bingo calls.

The winner plays four afternoon sessions a week of bingo and said that this is her first big win. She is a mother of four and grandmother of six and says she really has no idea what she will spend the money on but may treat her husband to a new car.

Reported at The National Bingo Game Association on Monday 19th May 2008